I have my Fan Art T-shirts online now. Pick your favorite officer. 10 for now but will be adding more. One shop for Europe and one for the US. Europe: toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/ US: toysoldiernostalgiaus.myspreadshop.com/
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Worked in a North London Model shop in the 70’s.We were one of the first UK shops to stock Atlantic product.Weird stuff,but a massive seller.
@@Page-Hendryxbevause there’s army men from literally EVERY war you could imagine… I was AMAZED at 12 years old there were plastic civil and revolutionary soldiers… What are YOU trying to infer huh? Why don’t you fuck off…..
Anything with the Austrian on the cover is a best seller. @@Page-Hendryx
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Only Airfix really had a range of 1:72 figures at the time.Atlantic had Greeks,Egyptians,Romans,Gladiators ships,castles,tons of WW2 troops from all nations,vehicles and accessories.Nothing quite like it had been available in the U.K. before.
@@mac7040 what is wrong With old Folks? Todays Kids "learn" history through battlefield or Cod Video game or listen to sabaton. Maybe Not always pure accurate, but at least inspiring.
@@mac7040 yes but toy soldiers were normaly shipped without any background. you just had a bunch of japs and marines and do stuff with it. so where is the learning value? your comment was just a typical old dudes comment praising the good ol time and mockin over today. yes, the kids of today are fucked up, but not because they stopped playing with toy soldiers.
These type of toys would invariably be accompanied by a dad/uncle/family friend who had served in WW2 giving the kid a good talk about his experiences fighting the Jerries. People didn't have dark motivations back then, it is our contemporary afflictions that make this seem worse than it is
depends where you are. my finish granddad told stories how he cooked the russkies in their t26 and my german granddad told stories how he chilled his whole service on the island of ruegen doing nothing but ran away at the end of the war when his Schnellboot should be converted to a suicide vessel. 🤣
@@snakeplissken2148 Yupp, mine used to tell me the stories while grammie was upset at him for telling me. He always responded that it was fine for whenever we had to fight Europeans again 😂
Maison Militaire sell King and Country models like these incl the Mercedes Staff Car,, and other members of the Hitler gang under ''Berlin '38. You will pay through the nose though.
In the Brown Shirts set the car is a Kübelwagen, a German jeep, Hitler would have been driving around in a Mercedes Benz limousine especially in his brown shirt days.
@@toysoldiernostalgia it’s all good 👍 I’m glad you made the video because I saw images of both these sets and wanted to see how they look but I can’t afford them
@@UrielRamirez-oy6nt I know they are realy expensive. I have had the brown shirt set for over 20 years but when the Mussolini showed up on Ebay for 180 euros I just had to get it.
I have the 1/87 set for the 1917 Russian Revolution. It's a really odd set of items - Lenin, Stalin, revolting navy personnel, a sledge, a big cannon - I got it from a tiny model shop, now long gone, and was shown it by the proprietor, who said to me: "I've seen it all, now. What the bloody hell is going on here?" Of course, seeing the contents, I had to buy a box - so weird and unexpected, that someone should create such a thing. But that was the joy of Atlantic sets - they always ploughed their own furrow, and went with it. And if they could, a bit further.
Non e' molto strano: in Italia, negli anni 70 e 80 si producevano simili articoli, più per fattori educativi che altro. Vigeva il motto: "educare giocando".
Atlantic did Nazis, Fascists, and Russian and Chinese commies. The only political system that didn't get a look-in was liberal democracy. But what would such a set be like? A bunch of guys in suits 😅 ?
I was in Rome in 2007. Looking in a Toy shop window, I saw a very detailed Toy set of Hitler at an 1933 SA Rally, with Rohm, standing in a Merc. With SA men with Swastika flags etc. Then there was a 1937 set too. They looked good quality. 1/34 scale. 5:32
Astonishing sets but you would have to have them in a collection. Love the channel and your love of especially airfix, as a young boy i had most airfix small soldiers and played every day with them.
It amazes me that in the 70s, about 30 years after the conflict, you had toys like this, while today, 80 years later, you don't... It seems that the further away from the conflict we are, the more traumatized by it we are becoming? What is happening?
I'm Italian. Born in 1978. I remember atlantic (italian company) figures. I actually still got some of them. They were not meant to be just a toy. They were meant to be pieces for historically accurate modelism. They were of higher quality and price.
Thanks for another great video Jerry! I understand your concerns over these sensitive toys but I think everyone here knows you well enough that we don't judge. You bring the toys and we all wish we could play with them too! Take care buddy, Cheers!
Great video, I never knew these existed. You were right when you mentioned people might not like them. We live in a world where someone who never bought a toy soldier in their life would protest a TOY being sold, for that reason I would buy one. Great job.
I am from Italy, my granpa used to buy me toy soldiers often, my favorite were the Atlantic ones, one day a friend of my family gave me the set with Mussolini and black shirts, whem my grandfather saw it, he proibithed me to use it. I was a former partisan. I was very upset because I was crazy for sidecar...I was 6 years old. Now I understand his feeling.
like you mentioned lots of people have probably a misinterpretation about toys and history. history toys showing history in a toy in historic times. thanks
Do you really have to apologise for showing or having toy soldier sets of Mussolini and Hitler? This is history and if that upsets you then you really need to get a hold of yourself. They are toys, no explanation should be needed
Do you really need to add to the negativity in the world by making this comment on such a friendly chammel? Couldnt you have done what i shouldve done and just THOUGHT it?
@@iantaylor3393 I could have done but thinking about things changes nothing. I am simply stating that someone should be able to talk about toy soldiers from a certain era in history without having to apologise about it in case someone out there gets upset
The only thing he apologised for was his Italian pronunciation which to be fair really wasn't bad. He said himself that it is history and only a toy. The apology for showing them was entirely in your head.
Wow, those are great for a collector or just a history buff. I never knew they existed or that someone had the balls to make them. They will offend but that is a part of keeping history alive and not forgetting the past. Your collection in the background is really impressive. I so would have playing with those as a kid, after all you need bad guys to attack.
@ianmclaughlin8987 I agree. When I was nine years old I got a set of WW2 Toy soldiers one of my uncles use to play with made during the 1950s or 60s. It came with Green Army men who were GIs and Gray German soldiers who fought for the Waffin SS. The set also had trees, tanks, trucks, jeeps and planes.
Imagine if the Hitler figure was moulded with a little bit less plastic and it came out with a bit of his head missing and knowing quality standards back then there must have been a few
Great video I collect 1/72 Atlantic have all 4 in 1/72 Great sets I am going to do ancient Egyptian and Roman armies using 1/72 Atlantic. All the best from down under Lewis Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
I got the Italian one in 1/72. My mate found them in a dusty corner of a hobby shop in Tokyo. You got the equivalent of 3 sets in a box IIRC. He gave me one. They're in the stash some place.
Jerry you’ve hit the jackpot there I’ve seen them in the past at toy fairs they were going for ridiculous money. I would love to own both sets but I’m not prepared to pay that much much got a few Atlantic pieces in the 172 scale that I found by accident at car boot sales here in the . Thank you for showing us these fabulous objects Mussolini and Hitler well in history shows what happened to them but as a toy soldier it’s just for fun that’s why in my wars. Nobody dies because they’re plastic soldiers excellent video. Regard DEON UK 🇬🇧 😁
I saw these in the 1970's almost died laughing at the thought of Adolf in a Kublewagon, what happened to the big six wheel Mercedes G4? Was it away for it's MOT.....and Mussolini in a motorcycle side car........???!!! Great figures, and great video,.....thank you. 👍.
I found sum hand made custom lead (hand painted) WW2 figures at a flea market. A trans gender 6ft plus was waiting for someone to buy them. I got a face full of hot coffee. When the police got there,it was nowhere to be found. I still have scars on my face.😢
had all those boxes... still have few pieces of the Russian revolution set. My generation grew up with Atlantic... they were often not very beautiful, historically inaccurate but so varied in their offering and cheap... Especially in HO scale (actually something between 1:87 and 1:72). They also produced armored vehicles to assemble, as you can see in this great video, always snap, waterline ships and airplanes. It was all very approximate because they had only one purpose: to entertain kids and be easily purchased by everyone. Today, especially certain scenarios from the series dedicated to ancient history, such as the Colosseum, are worth a lot of money among collectors. I played with them a lot back then and... curiously for some people, it seems I have not become devoted to totalitarian regimes...
In the 70s der was a more relaxed handling of this history, especially in Italy. I remember a comic book with a SS plane on the Cover (they never had planes). But in the late 80s, there was a turning point, after some New Nazi movements were discoverd
Great video and amazing yet very odd figures. I would not have minded being a fly on the wall in that marketing meeting. Any ideas on new set of figures, yes I have one how about .....................
These must be very rare Jerry but only on sale in Italy right? I don’t think anyone else is doing this kind of video Jerry and you keep it educational re Fasces’😊
It'd be hilarious to grab AH and paint him up as an undead villain for D&D or something "The tomb wall slides open with a deep grinding sound, shaking loose torrents of dust. Standing behind a podium in the shadowed hallway beyond is the lich, clad in a tight-fitting brown outfit, a flat hat, and brushy lit-" "Dude is that Hitler" "It's Adoltep"
The fasces is used as well by Spanish Guardia Civil police corps since its foundation in mid-19th century when Mussolini wasn't even born. The fasces has been a classical symbol for strength by unity and justice as well.
If I remember correctly, the fasces represented the authority to punish (stick) or to kill (axe) the guilty. Not totally sure, though….🤔 Thank you for showing those kits. Pretty damn interesting.
Yeah probably why the black shirts might have carried them in a march, they could pass around the sticks so they could beat people up and one guy would get an axe so he could destroy property
I've still got Atlantic Ancient Egyptians ''At the Pharoah's Court'' which is pretty fab! Also if you can't find Atlantic's Lenin and Mao sets I recommend ''War Against Fascism'' from Pegasus might be easier to find - very good set
I would love to have all the Atlantic ancient sets. Those and their wild west sets are the best from Atlantic I think. Found the Pegasus set on Plastic Soldier Review. Cool set. www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1411
@@toysoldiernostalgia The Egyptians were by far the best, then the Greeks (and the Trojans, which by the way WON'T harm your P.C.). Sadly, the Romans were just awful. I was quite disappointed with the Lenin set. I mistook Stalin for Trotzky :(
Just found the channel and love it. The car Hitler is in, is the Kubelwagen or command car. German equivalent of the jeep. Post war, became the Volkswagen Beetle. AH and other top Nazi brass only rode in those super long Mercedes so I'm guessing Atlantic re-used an existing car. Interesting to see an Italian company branding these historical figures as revolutionaries. Off chance, do you know the name of the French company that made ww2 figures and trucks?
The civilian Beetle came first. People could save to get their car. They did save (stamps) and then many didn't get their car because war had broken out and military Kübelwagens were being produced instead. The matter was solved after the war.
What Atlantic lacked in accuracy, they made up in imagination andvariety. I had their 1/72 Stalingrad battle set complete with amazing vehicles, figures, mat and even a very rudimentary set of wargame rules. I seem to remember that it was much cheaper than an Airfix assault set. I also had a field hospital and some Indian infantry with detachable knives.
That is a very unusual subject for toy figures. I did have some Atlantic toys back in the 70s but not too many. Overall with the different types I use to collect I had many. Most came from Hong Kong as they were known back then. I've missed some of the your messages as I receive two lots of comments in TH-cam and comments in email or Gmail in my case. Reply to where you buy your toy soldiers from. Because I haven't been searching for them much. I see you did buy something from Australia. There is plenty on eBay I've looked at. Because of the cost I find it hard to buy. Depends on affordability and of course other interests. Because I'm used to collecting model Aircraft and other items the soldiers slip my mind. But your right there's lots out there.👍🇭🇲✌️
It is a toy, there are many historical inaccuracies there, starting with the Kubelwagen as Hitler's parade car. Btw, some nazi swastikas were presented on their flat side, particularlly on standarts, so this is not the worst issue.
@@toysoldiernostalgiaI think they still produce them, even if at H0 scale, so I think they can be relatively cheap and easy to find! Happy to have helped💪
LAH sets are WILDLY popular in the 1:32nd/1:30 scale pre painted figures- just take a look at those websites some time- it's amazing how popular they are.
there were also sets for russian revolution and chinese revolution: I had them when I was a child. But the best Atlantic series were the Ancient one (the naval battle greek set was marvellous) and the WWII (indians and japanese figurines were amazing)
Excellent. You lucky man. These were the only Atlantic toys I wanted, mostly because of the Kübelwagen and the Motorcycles, but also because one needs an enemy to defeat. The similarities to the Airfix Blue Edge Box issues was an added incentive. I am impressed that you managed to get hold of these. Wasn't there a third Box?
Vectis in the uk have a large auction 17 September which might be of interest to you. I know they're expensive but you might find something of interest
10:39 That pose is a little bit weird. Usually the arms go opposite direction to the legs during walking/marching. Except when showing the „Deutsche Gruß“ (raised right arm salute). But this guy is definitely not doing that.
l'Italia non può fare a meno del ricordo di Mussolini e del fascismo. Molti scrittori, storici, giornalisti, registi, senza Mussolini non porterebbero il pane sulla tavola.
great video as usual, personally i don't think there's anything 'weird' about these sets, whilst the figures are fairly crude they are most interesting and of huge historic importance, i think there are double standards existing, if somebody had produced (maybe they have) sets of Mao's Red Guards or Stalin's NKVD would there be the same disquiet? i think not, third reich or italian fascist memorabilia is highly collectable in all its forms, this is merely history and does not condone any ideology, these are military toys nothing more nothing less, i notice the brownshirts in what looks like a Kubelwagen, i think hitler tended to use Mercedes Benz open tourers on brownshirt rallies, the letters beneath the Brownshirt standard bearer could be NSDAP( national socialist german workers party) i'd love to own these and would display them without a second thought, well done for doing this video
I agree it is fine to make historical sets on any subject realy. The weird part for me is just that usually they are pretty far from the norm as far as unpainted plastic toy soldiers go. I have seen a bunch of more collectable painted figures of both Mussolini and Hitler. Atlantic did a set on Lenin/Stalin and one on Mao.
Die Heerführer des 2. WK (Maßstab 1:35) wurden von Roco in einer Blisterpackung angeboten. Roco ist eine Firma in Wien, bekannt für ihr riesiges Modelleisenbahnprogramm und Fahrzeuge in 1:87, hat mit der deutschen Firma Roskopf, die Militärfahrzeuge im seltenen Maßstab 1:100 herstellte, nichts zu tun.
Mussolini wasn't actually at the march on Rome. He remained in Milan and made plans to flee to Switzerland if the march didn't go to plan. He was a bit of a coward so was a master at figuring out how to run away. The myth of him getting the trains to run on time comes from that when news reached him of the success he managed to get a perfectly timed train.
No he wasnt a coward. He was an ex soldier in ww1. He fought on the front lines and obtained the rank of corporal before being discharged for a war wound. Thats not a coward. He was an a-hole but not a coward.
Are you kidding? That wasn’t weird at all. As a child, I only had Vietnam era plastic “American” soldiers. I had to play civil war II because nobody had any other militaries available. An hated enemy army would have been fantastic!!!
I have my Fan Art T-shirts online now. Pick your favorite officer. 10 for now but will be adding more.
One shop for Europe and one for the US.
Europe:
toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/
US:
toysoldiernostalgiaus.myspreadshop.com/
Worked in a North London Model shop in the 70’s.We were one of the first UK shops to stock Atlantic product.Weird stuff,but a massive seller.
Cool 😀
...Why was it a "massive seller"?
@@Page-Hendryxbevause there’s army men from literally EVERY war you could imagine… I was AMAZED at 12 years old there were plastic civil and revolutionary soldiers…
What are YOU trying to infer huh? Why don’t you fuck off…..
Anything with the Austrian on the cover is a best seller. @@Page-Hendryx
Only Airfix really had a range of 1:72 figures at the time.Atlantic had Greeks,Egyptians,Romans,Gladiators ships,castles,tons of WW2 troops from all nations,vehicles and accessories.Nothing quite like it had been available in the U.K. before.
Toys like these helped me learn so much about history. Such a shame kids dont have such toys today.
@@mac7040 what is wrong With old Folks? Todays Kids "learn" history through battlefield or Cod Video game or listen to sabaton. Maybe Not always pure accurate, but at least inspiring.
@@snakeplissken2148 You said it "maybe not pure and accurate".
@@mac7040 yes but toy soldiers were normaly shipped without any background. you just had a bunch of japs and marines and do stuff with it. so where is the learning value? your comment was just a typical old dudes comment praising the good ol time and mockin over today. yes, the kids of today are fucked up, but not because they stopped playing with toy soldiers.
These type of toys would invariably be accompanied by a dad/uncle/family friend who had served in WW2 giving the kid a good talk about his experiences fighting the Jerries. People didn't have dark motivations back then, it is our contemporary afflictions that make this seem worse than it is
depends where you are. my finish granddad told stories how he cooked the russkies in their t26 and my german granddad told stories how he chilled his whole service on the island of ruegen doing nothing but ran away at the end of the war when his Schnellboot should be converted to a suicide vessel. 🤣
I wonder who is collecting there now though....
Grandad was at Dunkirk
@@snakeplissken2148 Yupp, mine used to tell me the stories while grammie was upset at him for telling me. He always responded that it was fine for whenever we had to fight Europeans again 😂
Never thought there was a plastic army men Hitler and Mussolini. But now I know.
Now you know :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia And knowing is half the battle
Maison Militaire sell King and Country models like these incl the Mercedes Staff Car,, and other members of the Hitler gang under ''Berlin '38. You will pay through the nose though.
@@robertobassetto885what’s the other half?
@@trevorwhitham6742 Stayin' alive :D
In the Brown Shirts set the car is a Kübelwagen, a German jeep, Hitler would have been driving around in a Mercedes Benz limousine especially in his brown shirt days.
I should have known this when making the video. But I´m a moron so I kinda lost it with the vehicle lol.
@@toysoldiernostalgia it’s all good 👍 I’m glad you made the video because I saw images of both these sets and wanted to see how they look but I can’t afford them
@@UrielRamirez-oy6nt I know they are realy expensive. I have had the brown shirt set for over 20 years but when the Mussolini showed up on Ebay for 180 euros I just had to get it.
the production of kübelwagen started 0nly 1940
I have the 1/87 set for the 1917 Russian Revolution. It's a really odd set of items - Lenin, Stalin, revolting navy personnel, a sledge, a big cannon - I got it from a tiny model shop, now long gone, and was shown it by the proprietor, who said to me:
"I've seen it all, now. What the bloody hell is going on here?"
Of course, seeing the contents, I had to buy a box - so weird and unexpected, that someone should create such a thing.
But that was the joy of Atlantic sets - they always ploughed their own furrow, and went with it. And if they could, a bit further.
I know those sets have some strange additions of non related items. But that´s why Atlantic is so much fun.
@@brianartillery you are 100% correct about the true scale of these sets, closer to 1/87 than any other small scale such as 1/76 or 1/72
Non e' molto strano: in Italia, negli anni 70 e 80 si producevano simili articoli, più per fattori educativi che altro. Vigeva il motto: "educare giocando".
Cool figures. As a humorous aside
Atlantic did Nazis, Fascists, and Russian and Chinese commies. The only political system that didn't get a look-in was liberal democracy. But what would such a set be like? A bunch of guys in suits 😅 ?
As a german I can tell you, I never thought I will see a toyline including a little toy hitler...
I was in Rome in 2007. Looking in a Toy shop window, I saw a very detailed Toy set of Hitler at an 1933 SA Rally, with Rohm, standing in a Merc. With SA men with Swastika flags etc. Then there was a 1937 set too. They looked good quality. 1/34 scale. 5:32
Astonishing sets but you would have to have them in a collection. Love the channel and your love of especially airfix, as a young boy i had most airfix small soldiers and played every day with them.
Thanks bud!
It amazes me that in the 70s, about 30 years after the conflict, you had toys like this, while today, 80 years later, you don't... It seems that the further away from the conflict we are, the more traumatized by it we are becoming? What is happening?
The bad guys tend to be most interesting.
Everybody loves Darth Vader even while cheering against him.
Actually Atlantic produced Lenin amd Mao sets as well
All are bad guys..
Yeah but at least he didn't get off with his Sister like Luke.
@@pathwaystomodernity7716 She was hot.
Cheering *against* Vader ... ?
I'm Italian. Born in 1978. I remember atlantic (italian company) figures. I actually still got some of them. They were not meant to be just a toy. They were meant to be pieces for historically accurate modelism. They were of higher quality and price.
I think you´re right. The same with the Ancient sets. They are not realy toys at all but model figures.
Thanks for another great video Jerry! I understand your concerns over these sensitive toys but I think everyone here knows you well enough that we don't judge. You bring the toys and we all wish we could play with them too! Take care buddy, Cheers!
Thanks bud! Cheers!
Great video, I never knew these existed. You were right when you mentioned people might not like them. We live in a world where someone who never bought a toy soldier in their life would protest a TOY being sold, for that reason I would buy one. Great job.
Thanks and I agree.
At a glance I thought one of the Blackshirts on the box was Trotsky, maybe he got lost that day, it happens.
That guys name is Italo Balbo
I am from Italy, my granpa used to buy me toy soldiers often, my favorite were the Atlantic ones, one day a friend of my family gave me the set with Mussolini and black shirts, whem my grandfather saw it, he proibithed me to use it. I was a former partisan. I was very upset because I was crazy for sidecar...I was 6 years old. Now I understand his feeling.
Wow great story.
I'd have been upset if I couldnt play with my Japanese soldiers to set up as the losing side
😂 Weird? You are the weird tool, pal.
@@kubli365My Japs always won. I liked them way better. They were much better trained than my allied troops.
They never surrendered.
Pretty sure the partisans were just as evil
like you mentioned lots of people have probably a misinterpretation about toys and history.
history toys showing history in a toy in historic times.
thanks
Completely bonkers sets😅
As always fun to watch Jerry.
Keep filming 🎥 😊
Do you really have to apologise for showing or having toy soldier sets of Mussolini and Hitler? This is history and if that upsets you then you really need to get a hold of yourself. They are toys, no explanation should be needed
Do you really need to add to the negativity in the world by making this comment on such a friendly chammel? Couldnt you have done what i shouldve done and just THOUGHT it?
@@iantaylor3393 I could have done but thinking about things changes nothing. I am simply stating that someone should be able to talk about toy soldiers from a certain era in history without having to apologise about it in case someone out there gets upset
I don´t think I apologized for showing these sets.
The only thing he apologised for was his Italian pronunciation which to be fair really wasn't bad. He said himself that it is history and only a toy. The apology for showing them was entirely in your head.
@@toysoldiernostalgia you shouldn't have to. Mark Felton never apologises for covering WW2 history and neither should you.
It's almost like crappy toys you'd get out of your Saturday morning cereal...."Hitler Crunch" or Duce with marshmallows?
😂😂
Wow, those are great for a collector or just a history buff. I never knew they existed or that someone had the balls to make them. They will offend but that is a part of keeping history alive and not forgetting the past. Your collection in the background is really impressive. I so would have playing with those as a kid, after all you need bad guys to attack.
My collection is pretty good but there´s always more stuff to get :)
@ianmclaughlin8987 I agree. When I was nine years old I got a set of WW2 Toy soldiers one of my uncles use to play with made during the 1950s or 60s. It came with Green Army men who were GIs and Gray German soldiers who fought for the Waffin SS. The set also had trees, tanks, trucks, jeeps
and planes.
Atlantic made some of the best sets ever, especially the Ancient Egyptians, The Romans and the Greeks
I agree,those ancients sets were very nice.
I bought the Egyptians and Greeks in the early 80s.
Yeah those were great sets 😀
all I can think about is a doctor having to pull history's most notorious dictator out of a kids nose or something
Rofl 😂😂
Doctor removing a gestapo figure from up a kids nose. They know everything about you, including your nose's insides. 😊
My now wife introduced me to her family by telling them that I was a collector of Nazi memorabilia.
That´s some balls on her. Sounds like she was a keeper :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia Just don't tell her about how much I spend on this stuff.
The guys who fought the bankers were the bad guys, how dare they.
@@pathwaystomodernity7716 LOL!
😂
Thanks dir thia video. 1922 la marcia su Roma e i triumviri. Atlantic era imparziale infatti produsse il kit Mao e il kit Lenin
Other producers such as Airfix, Matchbox, ESCI Baravelli, never released 'political' miniature sets. Only Atlantic dared to do so.
Imagine if the Hitler figure was moulded with a little bit less plastic and it came out with a bit of his head missing and knowing quality standards back then there must have been a few
Imagine having a Hitler with no mustache
Kids would've found that hilarious probably, cool play feature!
Great video
I collect 1/72 Atlantic have all 4 in 1/72
Great sets
I am going to do ancient Egyptian and Roman armies using 1/72 Atlantic.
All the best from down under
Lewis
Sydney
Australia 🇦🇺
Great toy soldiers and information video.
Glad you liked it. Cheers. 😀
Now I'm begging to see the Mao and Stalin sets one day
One of these days maybe I can afford them :)
This collection Is great. Original box!!!
I got the Italian one in 1/72. My mate found them in a dusty corner of a hobby shop in Tokyo. You got the equivalent of 3 sets in a box IIRC. He gave me one. They're in the stash some place.
I´m gonna get the 1/72 sets some day.
When I was a kid I had them both back in Italy. Today it would be unthinkable
Crazy these were even made! Awesome find!
@@HydroMaester back in the 30s we had small molded figures that even could lift their arm. Bohrmann, goering, himmler, they were All there!
How can you make any sense of the good guys if you don't recognize the serious threat represented by the bad guys?
Fantastic. Never heard of these.
Now you have :)
Oh man I am so subscribed!
Solid review! A strange choice by Atlantic for sure. But who knows? Just hope YT doesn't give you a strike on this one. They can be very weird.
Thanks. I think it should be ok as there´s a lot of documentaries, history channels and such on TH-cam. Facebook is another story though.
Jerry you’ve hit the jackpot there I’ve seen them in the past at toy fairs they were going for ridiculous money. I would love to own both sets but I’m not prepared to pay that much much got a few Atlantic pieces in the 172 scale that I found by accident at car boot sales here in the . Thank you for showing us these fabulous objects Mussolini and Hitler well in history shows what happened to them but as a toy soldier it’s just for fun that’s why in my wars. Nobody dies because they’re plastic soldiers excellent video. Regard DEON UK 🇬🇧 😁
Great collection & unique great job
Thanks 😀
I saw these in the 1970's almost died laughing at the thought of Adolf in a Kublewagon, what happened to the big six wheel Mercedes G4? Was it away for it's MOT.....and Mussolini in a motorcycle side car........???!!! Great figures, and great video,.....thank you. 👍.
W pewien sposób perełka w kolekcji..nigdy nie widziałem tych zestawów mimo ze żołnierzyki to cale moje zycie...
I found sum hand made custom lead (hand painted) WW2 figures at a flea market. A trans gender 6ft plus was waiting for someone to buy them. I got a face full of hot coffee. When the police got there,it was nowhere to be found. I still have scars on my face.😢
I hope to find those two sets someday.
Me too :)
had all those boxes... still have few pieces of the Russian revolution set. My generation grew up with Atlantic... they were often not very beautiful, historically inaccurate but so varied in their offering and cheap... Especially in HO scale (actually something between 1:87 and 1:72). They also produced armored vehicles to assemble, as you can see in this great video, always snap, waterline ships and airplanes. It was all very approximate because they had only one purpose: to entertain kids and be easily purchased by everyone. Today, especially certain scenarios from the series dedicated to ancient history, such as the Colosseum, are worth a lot of money among collectors. I played with them a lot back then and... curiously for some people, it seems I have not become devoted to totalitarian regimes...
Wow I can’t believe they got made considering the climate during the 70s. Wow 🤦🏽♂️ especially in Italy wow
In the 70s der was a more relaxed handling of this history, especially in Italy. I remember a comic book with a SS plane on the Cover (they never had planes). But in the late 80s, there was a turning point, after some New Nazi movements were discoverd
Reallly things became worse at the turning of the Millennium. The idea of Freedom much wider back in the day.
All Is very worse now.
On the contrary. The 70's was the last truly free decade when society still expected people to make up their own minds.
the 1970s was a utopia of freedom, the west is anti-democracy now.
Very cool and fairly rare I would think.
Yes not easy to find.
Great video and amazing yet very odd figures. I would not have minded being a fly on the wall in that marketing meeting. Any ideas on new set of figures, yes I have one how about .....................
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing 😁👍
"fascesnating"?
(Sorry, I couldn't help it)
King and Country during the 00’s had released lots of Third Reich metal figures and vehicles, including Hitler, Göring, etc.
That's pretty far out. Now you just need to find someone crazy enough to create modern day villains in this style.
Jerry, these figures resemble those flat green US toy soldiers that were advertised in US kids comics in the 50s.
Loved this, really interesting Jerry 👍
Nice :)
Great find 👍🇬🇧
Thanks!
These must be very rare Jerry but only on sale in Italy right? I don’t think anyone else is doing this kind of video Jerry and you keep it educational re Fasces’😊
Thanks :)
No, also in Belgium. Way back in the 1970s-80s.
Awesome video and figures.
Thanks 😀
It'd be hilarious to grab AH and paint him up as an undead villain for D&D or something
"The tomb wall slides open with a deep grinding sound, shaking loose torrents of dust. Standing behind a podium in the shadowed hallway beyond is the lich, clad in a tight-fitting brown outfit, a flat hat, and brushy lit-"
"Dude is that Hitler"
"It's Adoltep"
😂😂
Yeah hilarious, I can hear the laughter of Cheeto dusted, pasty faced adolescents echoing around their Mom’s basements.
@@asafoetidajones8181 Better still use him as the basis of a steampunk cyborg Mechahitler.
Early 1970s - very different times
Still looking for this one and also Matchbox rocket attack. Even the empty boxes will be ok!
fun fact- two fasces adorn the walls of the US House Chamber
They are in so many places. The Swedish police coat of arms have them as well.
The American Mercury head dime used to have a fasces on its reverse from 1916-1945 (I think those are the correct years).
The fasces is used as well by Spanish Guardia Civil police corps since its foundation in mid-19th century when Mussolini wasn't even born.
The fasces has been a classical symbol for strength by unity and justice as well.
The fasces comes from the Roman day where it was used as a symbol of power. It's very common in western countries
always i love Atlantic Boxes than than toy soldiers! 😍😍
If I remember correctly, the fasces represented the authority to punish (stick) or to kill (axe) the guilty. Not totally sure, though….🤔
Thank you for showing those kits. Pretty damn interesting.
Yeah probably why the black shirts might have carried them in a march, they could pass around the sticks so they could beat people up and one guy would get an axe so he could destroy property
Some interesting toy figure sets
They look so cool, I want them
If only we had access to thesr as kids I remember me and my friends had to recreate the beer hall putsch using twigs and pebbles
I've still got Atlantic Ancient Egyptians ''At the Pharoah's Court'' which is pretty fab! Also if you can't find Atlantic's Lenin and Mao sets I recommend ''War Against Fascism'' from Pegasus might be easier to find - very good set
I would love to have all the Atlantic ancient sets. Those and their wild west sets are the best from Atlantic I think.
Found the Pegasus set on Plastic Soldier Review. Cool set.
www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1411
@@toysoldiernostalgia The Egyptians were by far the best, then the Greeks (and the Trojans, which by the way WON'T harm your P.C.).
Sadly, the Romans were just awful.
I was quite disappointed with the Lenin set. I mistook Stalin for Trotzky :(
you should make more videos on reviews and stay more consistent i love your videos
Do you mean reviews of toy soldier sets?
Just found the channel and love it. The car Hitler is in, is the Kubelwagen or command car. German equivalent of the jeep. Post war, became the Volkswagen Beetle. AH and other top Nazi brass only rode in those super long Mercedes so I'm guessing Atlantic re-used an existing car. Interesting to see an Italian company branding these historical figures as revolutionaries. Off chance, do you know the name of the French company that made ww2 figures and trucks?
Thanks man :)
I have no clue about any french companys except for Majorette (die cast cars).
I´m an idiot that didn´t realize the car was a kubelwagn.
The civilian Beetle came first. People could save to get their car. They did save (stamps) and then many didn't get their car because war had broken out and military Kübelwagens were being produced instead. The matter was solved after the war.
For their time,1970s ,the box art is what would be considered mainline.
What Atlantic lacked in accuracy, they made up in imagination andvariety. I had their 1/72 Stalingrad battle set complete with amazing vehicles, figures, mat and even a very rudimentary set of wargame rules. I seem to remember that it was much cheaper than an Airfix assault set. I also had a field hospital and some Indian infantry with detachable knives.
I totaly agree and that´s why I like Atlantic so much.
Very cool. I have the HO German set.
Nice that they have these as toys- we all need to have the bad guys depicted - even in toys!
That is a very unusual subject for toy figures. I did have some Atlantic toys back in the 70s but not too many. Overall with the different types I use to collect I had many. Most came from Hong Kong as they were known back then. I've missed some of the your messages as I receive two lots of comments in TH-cam and comments in email or Gmail in my case. Reply to where you buy your toy soldiers from. Because I haven't been searching for them much. I see you did buy something from Australia. There is plenty on eBay I've looked at. Because of the cost I find it hard to buy. Depends on affordability and of course other interests. Because I'm used to collecting model Aircraft and other items the soldiers slip my mind. But your right there's lots out there.👍🇭🇲✌️
I have a large collection of soldiers too!
If I was a kid again and found these I would of came up with endless amount of assassination scenerios lol
I probably would have done the same. Some British commandos and a good plan 😀
Operation Anthropoid, but make it really big this time...I would have loved these figures.
Can somebody please provide me with the name of the last song during the figure showcase?
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Thank yiu
Are the swastikas in the German set correct? They used a tilted swastika, not one that sat flat.
I have no clue. Maybe you`re right.
It is a toy, there are many historical inaccuracies there, starting with the Kubelwagen as Hitler's parade car.
Btw, some nazi swastikas were presented on their flat side, particularlly on standarts, so this is not the worst issue.
The man who carried the fasces was called a lictor. In English that's an unfortunate couple of words used together.
British Tanks at Cambrai in WW1 and the Churchill AVRE used fascines (bundles of sticks) to fill in trenches to cross them.
If you want the Lenin and Stalin set, Nexus (Italeri) made a reprint with the original moulds by Atlantic
I think that´s going to be even harder to find. But now that you told me about it I´m gonna be even poorer lol.
@@toysoldiernostalgiaI think they still produce them, even if at H0 scale, so I think they can be relatively cheap and easy to find! Happy to have helped💪
You can never have too many salutes in a fascist regime ❤
LAH sets are WILDLY popular in the 1:32nd/1:30 scale pre painted figures- just take a look at those websites some time- it's amazing how popular they are.
LAH?
@@toysoldiernostalgia "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" Hitler's body guard.
Great video, I wonder if they were sold in Great Britain?
Probably not. They are so hard to find that I don´t think they sold much of them at all.
Maybe not the UK but they could be found in Belgium.
The Hitler set has a Kubelwagon as a car Hitler rode in. Hitler would have been driven in the 6 wheeled Mercedes-Benz car.
You should do some videos of The First World War toy soldiers, and also Napoleonic Wars.
I will later on. I have two videos on two of the napoleonic sets in 1/32.
there were also sets for russian revolution and chinese revolution: I had them when I was a child. But the best Atlantic series were the Ancient one (the naval battle greek set was marvellous) and the WWII (indians and japanese figurines were amazing)
Yes I mention those in the video. I guess they didn´t sell as well and are even harder to find.
I realy would like to get all those ancient sets.
Excellent. You lucky man. These were the only Atlantic toys I wanted, mostly because of the Kübelwagen and the Motorcycles, but also because one needs an enemy to defeat.
The similarities to the Airfix Blue Edge Box issues was an added incentive.
I am impressed that you managed to get hold of these. Wasn't there a third Box?
where can these 2 sets be purchased from?
Ebay but they are kinda hard to find.
@@toysoldiernostalgia alr , thank you
those would look good w/my bootleg Lego Uncle A and his Wehrmacht set .
Looking forward to the Stalin and Mao review!
You probably will have to wait for quit some time :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia atlantic did produce Lenin and Mao sets as well
Interesante, pero no debería sorprender. Después de todo la historia no debería ser borrada!.
History is important for sure. It shouldn´t be erased but should also be examined and reexamined.
Vectis in the uk have a large auction 17 September which might be of interest to you. I know they're expensive but you might find something of interest
Cool I’ll check it out. I have bought a bunch of stuff from them before. Matchbox SeaKings and battlekings.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Atlantic and tons of airfix. Don't spend too much ha
10:39 That pose is a little bit weird. Usually the arms go opposite direction to the legs during walking/marching. Except when showing the „Deutsche Gruß“ (raised right arm salute). But this guy is definitely not doing that.
Lol rou´re right. Didn´t even see that.
l'Italia non può fare a meno del ricordo di Mussolini e del fascismo. Molti scrittori, storici, giornalisti, registi, senza Mussolini non porterebbero il pane sulla tavola.
Ive seen these on auction and theyre quite expensive
Yes they are :)
07:53 wow
Great little figure.
great video as usual, personally i don't think there's anything 'weird' about these sets, whilst the figures are fairly crude they are most interesting and of huge historic importance, i think there are double standards existing, if somebody had produced (maybe they have) sets of Mao's Red Guards or Stalin's NKVD would there be the same disquiet? i think not, third reich or italian fascist memorabilia is highly collectable in all its forms, this is merely history and does not condone any ideology, these are military toys nothing more nothing less, i notice the brownshirts in what looks like a Kubelwagen, i think hitler tended to use Mercedes Benz open tourers on brownshirt rallies, the letters beneath the Brownshirt standard bearer could be NSDAP( national socialist german workers party) i'd love to own these and would display them without a second thought, well done for doing this video
I agree it is fine to make historical sets on any subject realy.
The weird part for me is just that usually they are pretty far from the norm as far as unpainted plastic toy soldiers go. I have seen a bunch of more collectable painted figures of both Mussolini and Hitler.
Atlantic did a set on Lenin/Stalin and one on Mao.
Actually ATLANTIC made sets of Lenin and Mao' cohorts as well
ROCO (roskopf) also made a set of W.W. II leaders, several generals included and Hitler an Churchill
I`ll have to check them out.
Die Heerführer des 2. WK (Maßstab 1:35) wurden von Roco in einer Blisterpackung angeboten. Roco ist eine Firma in Wien, bekannt für ihr riesiges Modelleisenbahnprogramm und Fahrzeuge in 1:87, hat mit der deutschen Firma Roskopf, die Militärfahrzeuge im seltenen Maßstab 1:100 herstellte, nichts zu tun.
@@volksfront9605 Good info, thank you.
Mussolini wasn't actually at the march on Rome. He remained in Milan and made plans to flee to Switzerland if the march didn't go to plan. He was a bit of a coward so was a master at figuring out how to run away. The myth of him getting the trains to run on time comes from that when news reached him of the success he managed to get a perfectly timed train.
No he wasnt a coward. He was an ex soldier in ww1. He fought on the front lines and obtained the rank of corporal before being discharged for a war wound. Thats not a coward. He was an a-hole but not a coward.
That's why he disguised himself as a wounded german soldier when it all went down. He was a coward and he died like one.
@@swebilbo haha a corporal, He really made it through the ranks like Johnny Rico. Probably He inflicted the wound himself to escape the mayhem.
This brave-man: does not sknows: "Elastolin" ToySoldiera of the '30/'40 Times: a true Masterpiece/worldwide-known of workmanship!!!😊
Are you kidding? That wasn’t weird at all. As a child, I only had Vietnam era plastic “American” soldiers. I had to play civil war II because nobody had any other militaries available. An hated enemy army would have been fantastic!!!